Stephen Tait wrote:
> David, you're a genius.
er, ta :)
>> I've had problems with resolution and PERL before (there was a module
> somewhere that would refuse to compile cos I didn't have a valid DNS
> entry in my hosts file for localhost; adding my network IP addy and
> hostname - which I always do anyway, but hadn't done at that stage -
> fixed it), but this really didn't occur to me. wget works fine, the
> script works fine... everything's fine!
well - it's not really.
Adding things like this to your hosts file will hurt you one day.
You need to find out why it wouldn't resolve and fix that.
What's in /etc/reolv.conf?
David